![]() ![]() The collection does not attempt to construct a timeline of Palestine in the twentieth century but rather shares through stories the heartbreaking changes. The essays and fiction that appear in May’s collection have been previously published in periodicals as a result, some information is repeated, but that actually helps it stick. Mohammad Saba’aneh was born later and was part of that forced migration all his memories of Palestine are of life in an occupied state. May Mansoor Munn was born in the 1930s, and so remembers living in Jerusalem before apartheid, the beginnings of the Zionist state, and the massive forced migration of Palestinians. They were born so far apart and lived in such different times in Palestine, that their stories are quite divergent. Mohammad, part of the Palestinian diaspora, was born in Kuwait and only visited Palestine until moving back in 2000, just in time for the second Intifada. ![]() May was born Quaker and raised in Jerusalem and Ramallah and moved to the United States to go to college in the 1950s. ![]() ![]() May Mansoor Munn and Mohammad Saba’aneh could hardly be more different in their ways of illustrating life in Palestine for a Western, or at least non-Palestinian, audience. $15/Paperback White and Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine. Where Do Dreams and Dreaming Go? A Palestinian Quaker in America By May Mansoor Munn, edited by Ann Walton Sieber. ![]()
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